Sriram Subramanian

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“In the first days of my honeymoon, I travelled to central Italy to retrace the same steps my great-grandmother Filomena walked after her own nuptials, almost 100 years earlier.”<p>Everywhere I went, I walked in her footsteps. She stepped on these same stones, past the Roman-era thermal baths, beyond …

Hygiene and ritual marked every moment of life for pregnant Aztec women. The tlamatlquiticitl—midwife—offered those in her charge a remarkable 16th-century birthing plan, combining practical care, drugs for pain relief, and religious ceremonies.<p>This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue …

When my daughter’s pediatrician in New York City weighs her, we have to take all of her clothes and diaper off and step away from the scale so it can be recalibrated. Then we put her on the scale, our hands hovering over her in case she picks that moment to become an expert roller. Her weight, down …

If the United States was more like the rest of the world, a McDonald's Quarter Pounder might be known as the McDonald's 113-Grammer; John Henry's nine-pound hammer would be 4.08 kilograms, and any gorillas in the room would likely weigh 362 kilos.<p>One reason this country never adopted the metric …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders have spent months promoting the myth that red low-tax states are subsidizing blue high-tax states because of the deduction for state and local taxes.<p>An Associated Press Fact Check finds it's actually the other way around. High-tax, traditionally Democratic …

Living offline and off-the-grid, these people gather in India to bring life back to a once deserted land, healing themselves in the process.<p>“The jungle is a womb. The air in the tropics is like warm honey, viscous, sticky, filling the ears until the sounds of the outside world are far away. People …

And it may actually be worse for you.<p>When it comes to heathy foods, the rules are always changing. Fat was the enemy, then it was sugar. “Eat more protein” turned into “eat less meat.” But we’ve always seemed to agree that wheat bread is healthier than white bread. For better or worse, that too …

Chatbots. They’re usually a waste of your time, so why not have them waste someone else’s instead? Better yet: why not have them waste an <i>email scammer’s</i> time.<p>That’s the premise behind Re:scam, an email chatbot operated by New Zealand cybersecurity firm Netsafe. Next time you get a dodgy email in …

Title IX is often credited with getting more girls involved in sports, but there's another, more intimate milestone in the women-in-sports story that deserves some recognition: This year, the Jogbra turns 40.<p>In 1977, Hinda Miller had just started working at the University of Vermont and had taken …

We caught up with Nako Nakatsuka about what she learned from her crash, and why she created her new site, bikewoke.com<p>In the June issue of <i>Bicycling</i>, we shared the story of Nako Nakatsuka, a UCLA triathlete and bike commuter who was sued by the driver who plowed into her bike from behind.<p>The …

The CIA has a favorite phrase: "We can neither confirm nor deny."<p>It was born as part of a strange Cold War drama, involving Howard Hughes, that now has a new twist.<p>Back in March 1968, a Soviet submarine and its nuclear missiles suffered a catastrophic accident and sank to the dark, chilly floor of …